This world has become a jaded, jaded place. For good reason mostly. It sucks that generally in society we dont give a f*€k about others. Its just good to see someone care, and actually do something every once in a while. Especially a cop, because in my experience, most of them are just the worst people imaginable.

Not to downplay how nice this is, but the homeless guy may have been shoeless to get more donations/money. I often see homeless here without shoes/wearing garbage bags etc, it's why a lot of crusties keep a dog, they often get more by looking worse. I certainly hope he wears the shoes though, you can tell from the photo that his feet are pretty jacked.

Hipchewy1:Not to downplay how nice this is, but the homeless guy may have been shoeless to get more donations/money. I often see homeless here without shoes/wearing garbage bags etc, it's why a lot of crusties keep a dog, they often get more by looking worse. I certainly hope he wears the shoes though, you can tell from the photo that his feet are pretty jacked.

Mr. Cano volunteered to give the officer his employee discount to bring down the regular $100 price of the all-weather boots to a little more than $75.

farking pigs. Volunteered my ass, I'm sure the big bad cop leaned on the poor shop keeper for the old "policeman's discount," and he probably used his uniform allowance to pass the cost on to the downtrodden taxpayer anyway. I demand an independent investigation. Not like it will matter, no matter what they find the police union will keep this worthless leech on the payroll. The 99% making the 1% look bad!

I used to roll my eyes at people who said mean things about the police, but with increasing age and cynicism, I've come to think that while there must be good, altruistic reasons to pursue a career in law enforcement, the profession also must attract more than its fair share of people who suffer from a degree of psychopathy or megalomania. The temptation for these sorts of people to get to wear a gun and force people to do what they say after just a few months of post-high school training must be very difficult to resist.

Even so, I doubt any person becomes a cop without rationalizing a little to himself that he really just wants to help other people. It was definitely a nice thing, what this guy did. But people are complicated, and do "nice things" for all sorts of reasons, so I don't think this story or others like them do much to change my attitude about the police.

On a cold November night in Times Square, Officer Lawrence DePrimo was working a counterterrorism post...Officer DePrimo went into a Skechers shoe store at about 9:30 p.m.... "as soon as the boots were on him, he went on his way, and I just went back to my post."

Hipchewy1:Not to downplay how nice this is, but the homeless guy may have been shoeless to get more donations/money. I often see homeless here without shoes/wearing garbage bags etc, it's why a lot of crusties keep a dog, they often get more by looking worse. I certainly hope he wears the shoes though, you can tell from the photo that his feet are pretty jacked.

Unfortunately, this is the case. This guy's hook is that he can't afford shoes. Others have chimed in to say that he's been doing this for a while.

Unfortunately, he didn't need those shoes, or that level of generosity. Just wait for any followup, and he'll be shoeless again.